Don't bring your running shoes
If you are thinking of visiting London, don't bring your running shoes…
They held the pistol to him and unloaded five shots - The Guardian, Saturday July 23rd 2005
"…the man appears to have either fallen or been bundled to the ground by pursuing police, one of whom leaned over and shot him several times in the head. … 'I saw an Asian guy. He ran on to the train. He was hotly persued by three plain clothes officers, one of them was wielding a black handgun. … He looked absolutely petrified. They couldn't have been any more than two or three feet behind him at this time and he half tripped and was half pushed to the floor, and the policeman nearest to me had a black automatic pistol in his left hand. He held it down to the guy and unloaded five shots into him. They pushed him to the floor and basically unloaded five shots into him.' …" - The Guardian, Saturday July 23rd 2005
And today: Met chief apologises for shooting
It makes you ask yourself, if the guy had a whiter skin would the officer's trigger finger have been so itchy?
Sun, 24th Jul 2005 15:44:32 +0200
You see all around a kind of weird apologetic "These things happen in a war", or "He shouldn't have run".
UsingBut maybe, very maybe, the overall information the police acted on was wrong: After all they did put the house under surveillance, and just the day before several officers seemed to be very convinced the victim was in some way related to the bombings.
Mon, 25th Jul 2005 19:35:37 +0200
Also see the discussion here, and here.
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